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  • How Fantasy Helps Us Appreciate the Past

    How Fantasy Helps Us Appreciate the Past0

    The Lord of the Rings. Star Wars. Harry Potter. These beloved fantasies, despite their differences in tone and setting, all have one thing in common. In each case, the great battle has already been fought. Aragorn’s quest to reclaim the throne of Gondor and help Frodo destroy the One Ring is the continuation and final

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  • How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)

    How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)0

    In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay wrote, “During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was coming. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.” During the COVID-19 crisis, there has been no shortage of

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  • How Facebook and Netflix Are Disrupting the Education Status Quo

    How Facebook and Netflix Are Disrupting the Education Status Quo0

    Despite cries against the “corporatization of public schools,” the reality is that the private sector is injecting public education with much-needed innovation. Stuck in a 19th century factory model, mass schooling needs a 21st century makeover. Today’s tech giants are just the ones to usher public education into modernity. Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg,

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  • How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression

    How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression0

    Today’s young people are depressed. According to an issue of the Johns Hopkins Health Review, “the odds of adolescents suffering from clinical depression grew by 37 percent between 2005 and 2014.” And this depression doesn’t appear to get better with age, either. According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield report from earlier this year,

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  • How Europe Climbed Out of the Dark Ages

    How Europe Climbed Out of the Dark Ages0

    I and many others have wondered if the West is on the cusp of a new Dark Age. In spite of the impressive technological achievements of the past two centuries, some worrying, recent trends in education suggest that the intellectual capital which helped accomplish these achievements is gradually dissipating. If we are on the cusp

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  • How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family

    How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family0

    Oh, how Andrew Carnegie adored creative destruction! How much he hated the past! His 1886 book, Triumphant Democracy,[1] a breathless paean to “the Republic,” feels like a prayer, spoken as much in numbers as in words. Among the words of his prayer, none charms like Equality—none possesses a more explanatory power or expresses such warm devotion. Even

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